Location: Sparta

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Jingoistic Spartan State of Camiono Palmero Island is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Nigel Connery with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-working, cynical population of 4.94 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Religion & Spirituality, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pharaoh Ralph City. The average income tax rate is 45%, but much higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Gambling and Furniture Restoration.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, Camiono Palmero Island's newly-famous raindances to summon storms instead attract tourists from all over Sparta, bizarre-looking creatures called 'French Squirreldogs' dominate wildlife preserves, and political activists are routinely executed. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Camiono Palmero Island's national animal is the French Squirrel, its national religion is Sparta Squirrel Following, and its currency is the Neuro.

Camiono Palmero Island is ranked 6th in Sparta and 40,895th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and